- Jan 15, 2001
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My current card is an 8800GT 512Mb, that I have had for over 6 years, since 2008. It is by the far the biggest bottleneck on my PC.
Relevant PC spec:
-256GB ssd with read/write speeds of over 400 MB/s; been going strong for over a year now.
-AMD Phenom II x6 1055t; one pin is missing (located on the perimeter/edge), and because of that I need to stick to the default clock rate for 2 reasons. One reason: raising the voltage, at one time, prevented the computer from posting for a short while after multiple restarts. 2nd reason: I can raise the speed from 2.8 to 3.5GHz, but the motherboard resets the settings after while. This CPU and the motherboard will be the bottleneck of my system, if I do get the new video card, i think. My next CPU will most likely be an intel, as i dislike pins.
-12GB 1600MHz ddr3 ram; gotten good reviews for overclocking.
Windows 7 index rating:, 7.9 (SSD), 7.6 (CPU and RAM), and 6.9 (graphics card).
For me the ultimate downside about getting a new card, is that it's pretty much for just one game, Project Cars, a racing simulator, which I have funded and can play it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBLMscFP5ec
Another downside in getting this card, is that my budget was $160 (amd 6850? around late 2012) then $200 (amd 7850 early 2013). I went ahead and got a 7850, and it ran sloppily in Project Cars (PCARS). It seemed PCARS was extremely favorable to nVIDIA cards according to a German website that had chart, of the game's performance with different popular video cards of 2012.
Project CARS Build 447 - Radeon HD 7850 vs GeForce GTX 660: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4OcforH9Hk
I ended up returning the 7850, which was stupid, because I could have sold it on eBay and the "free games" that came with it separately, and could have made a profit .
For me I want to stay away from Radeon cards, because even since 2003, I keep reading about how bad and unstable their drivers are and refusal to embrace or be lenient to user made/open source drivers. Even with the 7850 2GB i got, I had to use "beta drivers" to play Project cars with minimal artifacts or issues, which blows IMO.
So my main question is, at around a $200 budget, is the 760 geforce 2GB still a formidable card, that I can expect to be versatile 3 years from now?
I know that the new 800 series are supposed to come out this fall, but at the same time Project Cars has been in development, since early-mid 2011, and I don't want to risk being a guinea pig for potentially unstable new video cards.
Relevant PC spec:
-256GB ssd with read/write speeds of over 400 MB/s; been going strong for over a year now.
-AMD Phenom II x6 1055t; one pin is missing (located on the perimeter/edge), and because of that I need to stick to the default clock rate for 2 reasons. One reason: raising the voltage, at one time, prevented the computer from posting for a short while after multiple restarts. 2nd reason: I can raise the speed from 2.8 to 3.5GHz, but the motherboard resets the settings after while. This CPU and the motherboard will be the bottleneck of my system, if I do get the new video card, i think. My next CPU will most likely be an intel, as i dislike pins.
-12GB 1600MHz ddr3 ram; gotten good reviews for overclocking.
Windows 7 index rating:, 7.9 (SSD), 7.6 (CPU and RAM), and 6.9 (graphics card).
For me the ultimate downside about getting a new card, is that it's pretty much for just one game, Project Cars, a racing simulator, which I have funded and can play it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBLMscFP5ec
Another downside in getting this card, is that my budget was $160 (amd 6850? around late 2012) then $200 (amd 7850 early 2013). I went ahead and got a 7850, and it ran sloppily in Project Cars (PCARS). It seemed PCARS was extremely favorable to nVIDIA cards according to a German website that had chart, of the game's performance with different popular video cards of 2012.
Project CARS Build 447 - Radeon HD 7850 vs GeForce GTX 660: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4OcforH9Hk
I ended up returning the 7850, which was stupid, because I could have sold it on eBay and the "free games" that came with it separately, and could have made a profit .
For me I want to stay away from Radeon cards, because even since 2003, I keep reading about how bad and unstable their drivers are and refusal to embrace or be lenient to user made/open source drivers. Even with the 7850 2GB i got, I had to use "beta drivers" to play Project cars with minimal artifacts or issues, which blows IMO.
So my main question is, at around a $200 budget, is the 760 geforce 2GB still a formidable card, that I can expect to be versatile 3 years from now?
I know that the new 800 series are supposed to come out this fall, but at the same time Project Cars has been in development, since early-mid 2011, and I don't want to risk being a guinea pig for potentially unstable new video cards.